In a crucial by-election seen as a dry run for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state, Uttar Pradesh voted on Sunday for by-elections to two parliamentary seats - Gorakhpur and Phulpur. Bihar voted for by-elections to the Araria parliamentary seat and two assembly seats. Gorakhpur, stronghold of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, polling was 47 per...

Uttar Pradesh's Phulpur constituency will go into polls tomorrow, in a contest that has turned around equations between two significant political parties in the state. The Samajwadi party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), once sworn enemies, have now banded together, for the first time in 25 years, to fight the BJP.

As Uttar Pradesh votes for Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, the ruling BJP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress gear up for a triangular contest in the bypolls. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) put aside its decades-old enmity with Samajwadi Party to sup...

For the first time in nearly 25 years, Mayawati, the chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the Samajwadi Party (SP), are on the same side. Mayawati, 62, who swore in 1995 to never work with the SP again after their coalition government came undone, has not put up a candidate against the SP.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today said her party had not formed any electoral alliance with archrival Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur and Phulpur, seats vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya.

The decision of the Congress and Samajwadi Party to go separate ways in the bypolls for two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh may have brightened the BJP's prospects of retaining these seats even as the party claimed it would rely on its hardwork and strength.

In a crucial by-election seen as a dry run for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state, Uttar Pradesh voted on Sunday for by-elections to two parliamentary seats - Gorakhpur and Phulpur. Bihar voted for by-elections to the Araria parliamentary seat and two assembly seats. Gorakhpur, stronghold of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, polling was 47 per...

Uttar Pradesh's Phulpur constituency will go into polls tomorrow, in a contest that has turned around equations between two significant political parties in the state. The Samajwadi party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), once sworn enemies, have now banded together, for the first time in 25 years, to fight the BJP.

As Uttar Pradesh votes for Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, the ruling BJP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress gear up for a triangular contest in the bypolls. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) put aside its decades-old enmity with Samajwadi Party to sup...

For the first time in nearly 25 years, Mayawati, the chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the Samajwadi Party (SP), are on the same side. Mayawati, 62, who swore in 1995 to never work with the SP again after their coalition government came undone, has not put up a candidate against the SP.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today said her party had not formed any electoral alliance with archrival Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur and Phulpur, seats vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya.

The decision of the Congress and Samajwadi Party to go separate ways in the bypolls for two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh may have brightened the BJP's prospects of retaining these seats even as the party claimed it would rely on its hardwork and strength.